hate crimes

Two Asian-Amercian customers at an In-N-Out Burger in San Ramon, California, were filming a TikTok video when a man verbally abused them with homophobic and racist language. The video, posted on Christmas, has since gone viral and…

By AMY BETH HANSON - Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Zooey Zephyr worked behind the scenes during Montana’s 2021 legislative session to oppose an ultimately unsuccessful effort to ban transgender…

By JEFF McMILLAN - Associated Press The Colorado Springs gay bar shooting suspect’s assertion of being nonbinary has put gender identity and pronouns — and some sensitive questions around them — back in…

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — A Texas man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for attacking an Asian family in 2020 because he thought they were Chinese and therefore responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, according to federal…

Today is Friday, July 22, the 203rd day of 2022. There are 162 days left in the year.Today’s Highlight in History:On July 22, 1937, the U.S. Senate rejected President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal to add more justices to…

AP SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hate crimes in California shot up 33% to nearly 1,800 reported incidents in 2021, the sixth highest tally on record and the highest since after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in…

By COREY WILLIAMS - Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Decades before Chinese immigrant Yao Pan Ma was attacked while collecting cans in New York and Thai American Vicha Ratanapakdee was fatally assaulted…

By JAKE BLEIBERG and JAMIE STENGLE - Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The girlfriend of a man arrested Tuesday in a shooting that wounded three women of Asian descent in a hair salon in Dallas’ Koreatown…

By ERIC TUCKER, MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and AMANDA SEITZ - Associated Press The 18-year-old gunman accused of a deadly racist rampage at a Buffalo supermarket seems to fit an all-too-familiar profile: an…

By CAROLYN THOMPSON and MICHAEL BALSAMO - Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white 18-year-old who shot and killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket had researched the local demographics and…